BROWNSVILLE, March 7 - It depends on us whether we get the federal funds Texas deserves by how well we respond to the census that begins April 1.

CAMARGO, Mexico, March 1 - Traveling west on the Ribereña Highway across the river from the Rio Grande Valley one finds a totally different environment than on our side of the Border.

BROWNSVILLE, Feb. 26 - It’s “Charro Days” this week in Brownsville, Texas. The men have grown beards, and the women have been preparing the Mexican revolutionary-period dresses they will wear.

REYNOSA, Feb. 24 - Rumors of imminent cartel violence in Reynosa and Matamoros became a self-fulfilling prophecy, a reality as cartels in shootouts amongst themselves and/or with the military flared up from Matamoros to Ciudad Mier.

AUSTIN, Feb. 21 - To all of you, my esteemed friends at the Reform Immigration for Texas Alliance, and especially Fernando Garcia and the hardworking folks at the Border Network for Human Rights, I deeply regret that I could not be with you tonight.